The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-23

WhlCh you nave asked.
A Street in Buffalo has been named
Cleyland avenue in honor of the Pres
ident.
Adonis Dixey believesit a mascot to
wear plain gold band on the right
thumb below the Joint.
Two of Cook county's boodlers were
convicted in Chicago and sentenced
to three years Imprisonment.
Nina Van Zandt, who married
Anarchist Spies by proxy, is said to be
rapidly declining in health.
George Gould says his father stays
away from his Office not because he is
i'll, but because there is nothiug for
him to do,
Nine. Bernhardt takes back to Paris
a thorough regard for the two Ameri-
cas- and 100000 OF as good money as
ever was earned by any people.
"Jake" Sharp was lokecd up in
London Street Jail because the Sher-
ifs officers could not stand the ia
tigue of watching him at his home.
SENATOR SHERMAN has recently
purchased forty building lots in the
northeast section OF Washington and
will soon commence Improvements on
them.
Two boys quawelled over a school
girls affections at st. Joseph, Mo-, and
the younger in his rage shot his rival
from an ambush during a game of
ball.
The courts of Illinois decide that
bank directors are trustees for deposi-
tors as we'll as stockholders, and are
individually responsible of the depos-
its.
Washington's Headquarters at Val
ley Forge has been purchased by the
Patriotic Order Sons OF America and
dedicated, with appropriate ceremo-
nies, to the nation.
A train on the Southern Pacific
Railroad was taken possession of by
robbers in Texas, between San An
tonic and Houston, and as the passen-
gers were wakened they were robbed.
Desirable seats for the jubilee exer-
cisas have been reserved in Westmin-
ster Abbey for Mr. and Mrs. Blaine,
and it is expected that they will at
tend on Tuesday.
The remains of the sculptor Joel T.
Hart, which were brought home from
Italy two years ago, were finally inter-
red at Frankfort, Kentucky, on Satnr-
day. An address was delivered by
Robert Burns Wilson the painter and
poet.
Jake Sharp spent Sunday in Jail
The Sheriff, to whose custody he had
been entrusted, would not take the re-
sponsibility of watching him at his
home, and the aged prisoner IL having
his first experience behind prison bars
Probably no one who has followed
the New York Doodle Aldermen cases
will doubt for an instant Sharp's guilt,
and yet it is by no means certain that
he will be convicted of bribery. He is
old and infrm and a term in Sing
Sing would doubtless prove fatal.
This will have its effect on the jury.
Again these cases have been so long
drawn out that they are losing the in
terest they once had. This ought not
to be, but still the fact remains. Ev-
erything considered it is not impossi-
bic that Sharp, the greatest sinner of
all, will escape the fate Of Jaehne and
i. McQuade.
0 The attempt of the New York Worlds
e balloon to come across the country
a was fizzle. The bag was in the air
q less than three hours and no one at all
d familiar with balloons can read the
o accounts of the short trip without q
0 feeling that Aeronaut Moore did not
n understand his busines. Mr.. Moore
n is young man full Of enthusiasm and
= ambition, but his experience has not
J. been in the direction of managing
l. great air ships. There is vast differ
e ence between the management of
i small balloons where few pounds of
sand spilled from a sack will check the
+" downward tendency, and a big bal
d loon where great deal of ballast must
d be quickly handled. A balloon looses
d much of its power in its first flight
= high in air and tie reaction is bound
to come, The Worlds balloon fell
rapidly for $4,000 feet, thing which
would not have happened had the
aeronaut been alive to the situation
The attempt is to be made again and
:; if Mr.. Moore has learned anything
from this experience he may be able
n. to do BETTER